UNC Sorry for Scoreboard Digs Against Clemson Fans

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Good-natured ribbing among conference rivals comes with the territory on college football Saturdays. But when the territory is a giant video board, lines pertaining to good taste can apparently be crossed.

Some Clemson fans took to social media following the then-No. 1 Tigers' unexpectedly dramatic victory at the University of North Carolina to voice their displeasure with a scoreboard feature that focused stadium cameras on visiting fans while superimposing derisive text over the images. One such image showed a woman in an orange Clemson jersey with the caption "Thinks that Clemson is in Georgia." A group of three fan clad in orange "Can't name Clemson's last head coach," according to the video board verbiage. And a shirt- and cap-wearing Tiger fan was paired with the phrase — in reference to former Clemson and NFL star William "The Refrigerator" Perry — "Thinks 'The Fridge' is just a kitchen appliance."

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